Key Selling Points:
- Shines a light on Canadian women who shaped and changed history through their impactful court cases. Includes the difficulties these women experienced in taking their cases to court, and the personal/financial/social costs.
- Karin Wells is a very talented storyteller and a lawyer. She brings us into the minds and hearts of these women. Her writing has been praised by Gloria Steinem, Quill & Quire, CBC, The Walrus, and more.
- This is not an exhaustive list of legal cases. Instead Wells chose these key women to show how their victories, and in some cases defeats, impacted women’s rights in Canada. Includes divorce proceedings, abortion rights, maternity benefits, the Indigenous Persons Case, the right to self defence, and more.
- An awarded radio documentary journalist with the CBC, Karin Wells' book The Abortion Caravan was a finalist for the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing and winner of the Ontario Historical Society's Alison Prentice Award.
